Thread #8 - Proposal by Bhaktarupa Das

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Dear Prabhus,

 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and his

pure followers! Here is a questions for you all:

 

Krsna-dharma Prabhu wrote:

"I am a TP, but see my main duty as training and caring for devotees.

Managing is secondary, and I aim to empower others to take on all my

administrative tasks anyway, so that I am free to study, teach and preach."

 

So I am humbly asking:

Is there a devotee in this conference who would volunteer to show this

prabhu that what he is describing here is that he wants to act only as a

brahmin in his temple, and not at all as a Temple President according to the

main duties of this post?

 

He says here that he wants to "empower" somebody else to do his

administrative and managing work to be "free to study, teach and preach". Is

that the dharma of a Temple president? Can somebody correct him on the basis

of Srila Prabhupada's instructions in his books, letters and conversations?

 

Is there a qualified brahmana in this conference who could send a proper

argument against this above tricky statement as for me this is simply not

honest and I can't stand when he regularly denies his own statements as soon

as somebody answers him in a straightforward way. I find it impossible to

discuss honestly with him. That is why I am asking for genuine help.

 

As long as I support his view he answers kindly, like for his paper on guru

approval for instance that I have found very interesting, but when I show

some weaknesses in his statements he pretends not to be understood. I don't

like this double-dealing and do not have the patience to tolerate these

manners and answer as he desires.

 

So, I am humbly asking for a volunteer like Vaiyasaki Prabhu for instance,

or Bhaktarupa Prabhu if he kindly agrees to do so, or Sri Rama Prabhu, etc.

to explain to Krsna-dharma Prabhu in his own terms, that teaching, studying

and preaching are not the main duties of a Temple President.

 

According to my humble understanding of his previous answers to me, he

considers himself the TP in his temple, but he thinks his duty is simply to

"empower", as he says, somebody else to do what I consider the main TP's

duties. Is that fair? Is that an honest proposal? Can somebody kindly reply

to his statement above?

 

Thank you in advance to all the patient devotees who will agree to clarify

this issue on this unmoderated conference.

 

Your servant, Krsna-kirtana dasi.